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Heart Failure
Nursing Training
Scientific Board
The Scientific Board has developed a substantive training program, STEP-ONE (Supportive Training and Essential Preparation for Optimal Nursing Education), which will be presented during the webinar. The event is aimed at trainers who will subsequently train heart failure nurses in Central and Eastern Europe and Baltic Countries.
Prof. Izabella UCHMANOWICZ, RN, PhD, FESC
The Head of the Department of Internal Nursing, Faculty of Health Sciences at Wroclaw Medical University, Poland,
Centre for Heart Diseases, University Hospital, Wroclaw, Poland
Nurse, specialist in cardiovascular and geriatric nursing
Expert in heart failure. Member of working groups preparing European expert documents on the care of patients with cardiovascular diseases. Author and co-author of many scientific, international publications. President Elect of the Association of Cardiovascular Nursing and Allied Professions, European Society of Cardiology. Provincial consultant in geriatric nursing. Former member of the Board of the Heart Failure Section of the Polish Cardiac Society. Special interests: cardiovascular diseases in the elderly, frailty syndrome.
Dr Magdalena LISIAK, RN, PhD
Department of Clinical Nursing, Wroclaw Medical University, Poland,
Centre for Heart Diseases, University Hospital, Wroclaw, Poland
Department of Cardiology, T. Marciniak Lower Silesia Specialized Hospital - Centre for Emergency Medicine
Certified Heart Failure Nurse,
Specialist in cardiovascular nursing
Member of the Board of the Nursing and Allied Professions of the Polish Cardiac Society. Member of the Heart Failure Association of the Polish Cardiac Society. Member of the European Society of Cardiology. Author and co-author of scientific publications on heart failure. Participant of many national and international conferences. Professional activity focused mainly on education of patients with heart failure and preparing them and their families for self-care and self-control.
Dr Marta WLEKLIK, RN, PhD
Department of Clinical Nursing, Wroclaw Medical University, Poland,
Centre for Heart Diseases, University Hospital, Wroclaw, Poland
Department of Cardiac Surgery, 4th Military Clinical Hospital, Wroclaw, Poland
Certified Heart Failure Nurse,
Specialist in cardiovascular nursing
Member of the Board of the Nursing and Allied Professions of the Polish Cardiac Society. Member of the Heart Failure Association of the Polish Cardiac Society. Member of the European Society
of Cardiology. Author and co-author of scientific publications on heart failure. Participant of many national and international conferences. Professional activity focused mainly on education of patients with heart failure and preparing them and their families for self-care and self-control.
Prof. Ewa A. JANKOWSKA, MD, PhD, FESC, FHFA
Department of Heart Diseases, Wroclaw Medical University, Poland,
Centre for Heart Diseases, University Hospital, Wroclaw, Poland
Cardiologist, geriatrician, specialist in internal medicine
Expert in heart failure, co-author of the European heart failure guidelines (2016), co-author of many international expert papers in cardiology. Board member of the Heart Failure Association of European Society of Cardiology since 2016 (currently treasurer), the world's largest organization
of heart failure experts. Special interests: iron deficiency, endocrine, metabolic, autonomic disorders in heart failure, frailty syndrome, cardiomyopathies.
Prof. Remigiusz SZCZEPANOWSKI, PhD
Department of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, Wroclaw Medical University, Poland
Psychologist
Adjunct at the Department of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, Wroclaw Medical University. He completed scientific internships at Brown and Indiana Universities in the United States and at Bangor University in the United Kingdom. He is the author or co-author of numerous scientific publications in international and domestic journals. His research expertise and interest are psychopathology of cognition, applications of psychology in medical practice, digital and robotic technologies in nursing and health behaviours.
Prof. Piotr PONIKOWSKI, MD, PhD, FESC, FHFA
Rector of Wroclaw Medical University,
The Head of the Centre for Heart Diseases at University Hospital, Wroclaw, Poland
The Head of Department of Heart Diseases at Wroclaw Medical University, Poland
Cardiologist, internal medicine specialist
Expert in heart failure, chairman of the working group preparing European heart failure guidelines (2016), co-author of many international expert papers in cardiology. Former member of the Board of Directors of the Heart Failure Association of European Society of Cardiology, including President of the organization from 2012 to 2014. Currently the rector of the Medical University of Wroclaw. Ranked among the world's most influential medical scientists by Clarivate Analytics "The World's Most Influential Scientific Minds".
